Katihar incident: SP says deaths not because of police motion, claims ‘unidentified individual opened fireplace’
4 min readExpress News Service
PATNA: Katihar Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar on Friday knowledgeable that the dying of two individuals and accidents to a different one throughout a violent protest towards irregular energy provide was not brought on by police firing. The official claimed that bullet fired by an unidentified individual within the mob killed the protestors.
The deceased have been recognized as Khursheed Alam and Sonu Kumar Sah.
The SP launched a video footage of the incident to substantiate his declare. “Today we reached the spot for physical verification of the incident that took place on Wednesday. During investigation, we checked the video footage of the incident. We noticed that a youth came from the direction where the first death took
place and opened fire. The bullet hit another victim,” he mentioned.
Kumar mentioned that the gun-toting man might be seen opening fireplace inflicting accidents to 2 bystanders killing Khurdsheed Alam on the spot and Sonu Kumar Sah succumbed to his accidents throughout therapy within the hospital. The third sufferer recognized as Neyaz Alam is present process therapy at a hospital in West Bengal, SP added.
Efforts have been on to establish the identification of the person who fired on the victims in the course of the protest towards irregular energy provide in Barsoi subdivisional space of the district.
“During verification of the spot where the first victim was hit by bullets we came to know that it was almost for the bullet fired by the police to have hit the deceased as claimed by people,” Kumar revealed.
#WATCH | Bihar: CCTV visuals of the Katihar firing incident.
(Video supply: IPRD) pic.twitter.com/qO1lhKtKwM
— ANI (@ANI) July 28, 2023
Katihar district Justice of the Peace Ravi Prakash mentioned that two separate FIRs have been registered at Barsoi police station in reference to the incident. While the primary FIR has been lodged by the electrical energy division, second FIR has been registered by the police, DM mentioned, including that the grievance of one of many deceased
Sonu Sah’s household has been clubbed with the 2 FIRs.
According to dependable sources, a two-member group comprising an extra collector and a DSP has been shaped to conduct additional investigation. “We will share more information after the investigation,” DM Ravi Prakash mentioned.
Meanwhile, chief of Opposition in Bihar meeting Vijay Kumar Sinha demanded a CBI inquiry into the police firing in Katihar. “The district administration is trying to give a new twist to the incident at the behest of political masters,” he informed the media.
Earlier, the state authorities had sought an in depth report from DM and SP on the police firing. The incident has taken a political color.
PATNA: Katihar Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar on Friday knowledgeable that the dying of two individuals and accidents to a different one throughout a violent protest towards irregular energy provide was not brought on by police firing. The official claimed that bullet fired by an unidentified individual within the mob killed the protestors.
The deceased have been recognized as Khursheed Alam and Sonu Kumar Sah.
The SP launched a video footage of the incident to substantiate his declare. “Today we reached the spot for bodily verification of the incident that happened on Wednesday. During investigation, we checked the video footage of the incident. We observed {that a} youth got here from the route the place the primary dying took
place and opened fireplace. The bullet hit one other sufferer,” he mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Kumar mentioned that the gun-toting man might be seen opening fireplace inflicting accidents to 2 bystanders killing Khurdsheed Alam on the spot and Sonu Kumar Sah succumbed to his accidents throughout therapy within the hospital. The third sufferer recognized as Neyaz Alam is present process therapy at a hospital in West Bengal, SP added.
Efforts have been on to establish the identification of the person who fired on the victims in the course of the protest towards irregular energy provide in Barsoi subdivisional space of the district.
“During verification of the spot where the first victim was hit by bullets we came to know that it was almost for the bullet fired by the police to have hit the deceased as claimed by people,” Kumar revealed.
#WATCH | Bihar: CCTV visuals of the Katihar firing incident.
(Video supply: IPRD) pic.twitter.com/qO1lhKtKwM
— ANI (@ANI) July 28, 2023
Katihar district Justice of the Peace Ravi Prakash mentioned that two separate FIRs have been registered at Barsoi police station in reference to the incident. While the primary FIR has been lodged by the electrical energy division, second FIR has been registered by the police, DM mentioned, including that the grievance of one of many deceased
Sonu Sah’s household has been clubbed with the 2 FIRs.
According to dependable sources, a two-member group comprising an extra collector and a DSP has been shaped to conduct additional investigation. “We will share more information after the investigation,” DM Ravi Prakash mentioned.
Meanwhile, chief of Opposition in Bihar meeting Vijay Kumar Sinha demanded a CBI inquiry into the police firing in Katihar. “The district administration is trying to give a new twist to the incident at the behest of political masters,” he informed the media.
Earlier, the state authorities had sought an in depth report from DM and SP on the police firing. The incident has taken a political color.
